Photos of the Year
Each year since 1978, Alan McLeod has hosted a beer photo contest for the holidays. The past two years I had scads of European brewery photos and cashed in for the win in 2011 with a Cantillon/koelschip pic. Totally unfair. I would have disqualified myself. Fortunately, Alan did not, and I will go on my merry way for the next few decades as a happy loser. (Unless I snag the "worst photo" some lucky year.) You should totally enter the contest.
This year, Alan's only letting us send five pics. Five! Impossible. I pulled out the bone saw and tore into the patient, but even unimaginable gore could not take me down to five. So here are the three I couldn't exclude but also couldn't exclude. My other entries will appear at some point in the next month over at The Good Beer Blog. I wouldn't call them better, just more likely to appeal to the judge (purely speculatively).
This year, Alan's only letting us send five pics. Five! Impossible. I pulled out the bone saw and tore into the patient, but even unimaginable gore could not take me down to five. So here are the three I couldn't exclude but also couldn't exclude. My other entries will appear at some point in the next month over at The Good Beer Blog. I wouldn't call them better, just more likely to appeal to the judge (purely speculatively).
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| Mt. Angel Abbey, which is adding a brewery, with hop fields in the background. |
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| Willamette Valley hop fields. |
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| Jim Bicklein, the master brewer at Anheuser-Busch's St. Louis brewery. Gorgeous facility. |